But that had been before the interminable waste of the Grass War and the long train of young women and men in front of my desk with the trinkets they thought would give them a chance of not becoming food for crows in a field somewhere.

C.T. Hutt is a former government policy analyst who escaped D.C. and took refuge in the Rocky Mountains. A graduate of the University of Colorado’s MFA program, his work has been featured in Juked Magazine and 69 Flavors of Paranoia. His debut novel Havoc’s Children: Dog Days of Thereafter will be available as an eBook in 2014. Find him on Twitter @bookhutt.